He wasn’t far from home and was quickly spotted by a daycare worker who noticed a tag on his backpack and called the school. Later the same day, another four-year-old, named Alexander, got off the bus at the wrong stop after classes. The little boy watched it all obliviously, until teachers spotted the mistake. Cue panic: The police were notified, an alert went out, dozens of police with a K-9 unit turned up to scour the neighbourhood, terror spread. A four-year-old Scarborough boy wandered into the wrong classroom on his first day in school, wearing the wrong nametag, and wasn’t immediately spotted. – LĪ new school year began on Tuesday, and Toronto’s often hysteria-prone news crews were geared up for the scare stories that always get served up by nervous parents this time of year. Our entire culture is tied up in knots about danger, unable or unwilling to understand that risk is inevitable - it doesn’t represent negligence, it’s just part of life.  The only think I don’t agree with is blaming a particular party for over-reacting to remote childhood dangers. No sad TROMBONEs today.Of the most fantastic editorials I’ve ever read. This one gave me so much delightful diversion that there could be no question about it. It's been a while since I've given Robyn a POW! (four whole months, the horror!), mainly because my standard for her is so sky-high. Okay, maybe a bit of a downer, but it's worth the cleverness.
After plunking in REBS, I couldn't figure out my error. Aside from CRISIS MODE, there's so much to uplift - EXTRA SPICY OVER THE TOP SECRET RECIPE is right! And such great clues for a bunch of otherwise ho-hum short entries, my favorite the innocent. Robyn does such a wonderful job of weaving joy and delight into both her grids and her clues.
Jeff Foxworthy is studying me for his next "You Know You're a Parent" bit.
I don't care if that's too long, that's my answer, and I'm sticking to it. I was sure that "something you can't get in a restaurant" would be ANYTHING THAT MY KIDS WILL EAT, but that's slightly too long.īERT AND ERNIE - surprisingly together for 50+ years! - unfortunately haven't worked themselves into my household, which is more filled with ASH AND THAT FREAKING ANNOYING SQUEAKY PIKACHU. Of course, January of 2020 was about 10 million news cycles ago, so I'm surprised I remember any of those details today.įinally, I'm happy to have introduced some fun entries to the NYT puzzleverse today: EXTRA SPICY, ZERO CHANCE, PUB TRIVIA, PICKY EATER, ACCENT RUG, SECRET RECIPE, and those wild and crazy guys, BERT AND ERNIE. The reason I clued EVA with the somewhat obscure meaning of "extra-vehicular activity" was that when I submitted this puzzle in January of 2020, astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir had recently completed the first all-female spacewalk, a story I had been following after the earlier debacle of not having enough spacesuits for women astronauts onboard the space station in 2019 (my original clue featured both their names). Also, I originally had so many food and cooking references that I felt compelled to remove some (plenty remain) for fear of this puzzle looking like it had been commissioned by "Bon Appetit" magazine! 5, and in that iteration, 8 of my 14 long entries are already in place. Versions 1-4 have been lost in the ether, but I do have v. I see from my files that you're solving version 6 of this grid.
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